Libreria Pagina Dodici is an independent bookshop in the Città Antica — a carefully curated space on one of the side streets between the Piazza delle Erbe and the Adige. The interior works through density rather than space: shelves from floor to ceiling, narrow browsing aisles, the particular organisation of a shop whose proprietors have read everything they stock. The selection runs from Italian literary fiction and poetry to history, architecture, and the visual arts, with a strong section on the Veneto and on Verona specifically — maps, chronicles, monographs on the city's Roman and medieval fabric. It is the kind of bookshop that resolves the problem of the afternoon in a city that has more to offer than the Arena.
Città Antica, Verona, Italy